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AWS announces GeneralPurpose.4xlarge and GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core, providing customers with powerful cloud desktops for resource-intensive Windows workloads. GeneralPurpose.4xlarge bundles offer 16vCPUs and 64 GB RAM, while GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles provide 32vCPUs and 128 GB RAM. Both bundles include a 175GB root volume and a 100GB user volume and are available on WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. These new large bundles are designed to allow developers, scientists, financial analysts, and engineers to run demanding applications with ease. Developers can handle large compilation and developmen…

The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool is now available on a dedicated page in the AWS Billing console, under Cost and Usage Analysis. It is no longer in the Cost and Usage Reports page, as this page is being deprecated. The Customer Carbon Footprint Tool supports customers on their sustainability journey. When signed into the AWS Billing console, customers can view their carbon emissions data for the past 36 months by geographical location and by AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). All other services are reported as Other. They can also measure changes in their carbon footprint over time, as they deploy new re…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS, and offer 5% lower prices compared to C7i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 8xlarge, and are a great first choice for application…

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now lets you filter which logs you want to capture. You can choose specific log types like Ad Server Interactions or individual events like Ad Server Responses, helping reduce costs and complexity by only collecting the data you need. To enable this feature, you add filtering parameters to your session requests to customize logging for each playback session. Please see the MediaTailor User Guide for further details. Visit the AWS region table for a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Elemental MediaTailor is available. To learn more about MediaTailor, please visit the product page. View the full article

AWS Marketplace now supports the collection of Swiss Value Added Tax (VAT) on sales by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to customers located in Switzerland. This allows ISVs registered for Swiss VAT to simplify and streamline their tax operations on AWS Marketplace in Switzerland. In addition, AWS Marketplace now supports Multiple Tax Profiles for Switzerland, a new feature that enables ISVs to associate multiple VAT registrations with a single seller account. These features make it easier for global ISVs to do business in Switzerland by simplifying their tax management. With this launch, ISVs will no longer be required to manually manage the Swiss VAT for their sal…

Today, AWS is announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager support for cross-account, cross-Region reports in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, you can use your AWS Organizations’ management or delegated administrator account to generate aggregated cross-account and cross-Region reports on your data protection policies and retrieve operational data about your backup and recovery activities. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on th…

We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure maximum number of OCUs per account. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availabil…

This post is co-written by Dr. Leonard Heilig and Meliena Zlotos from EUROGATE. For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. Internally, making data accessible and fostering cross-departmental processing through advanced analytics and data science enhances information use and decision-making, leading to better resource allocation, reduced bottlenecks, and improved operational performance. Externally, sharing real-time data with partners such as shipping lines, trucking companies, and customs agencies fosters better coordination, visibility, and faster dec…

This blog discusses the AWS services and tools that can help improve model performance and outcomes with relevance to AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer-Associate (MLA-C01) certification. You can automate performance tracking, anomaly detection, and real-time debugging using these tools. Read through this blog to ensure the model remains accurate, reliable, and aligned with business goals, even in dynamic environments... View the full article

This post was authored by Markus Kokott, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and co-written with Balaji Balakrishnan, Head of Platform Services & DevOps, Santa Kumar Bethanapalli, Head of Cloud Operations & SRE, and Natarajan Ramani, Lead Platform Engineer, from webMethods iPaaS. Introduction In this post, we discuss webMethods’ journey in transitioning webMethods iPaaS into a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) offering on AWS, the challenges we faced and how these obstacles were overcome. We provide insights into the AWS architecture and design approach. webMethods iPaaS, part of the IBM portfolio, enables businesses globally to remove connectivity barriers…

This post is cowritten by Ishan Gupta, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Juicebox. Juicebox is an AI-powered talent sourcing search engine, using advanced natural language models to help recruiters identify the best candidates from a vast dataset of over 800 million profiles. At the core of this functionality is Amazon OpenSearch Service, which provides the backbone for Juicebox’s powerful search infrastructure, enabling a seamless combination of traditional full-text search methods with modern, cutting-edge semantic search capabilities. In this post, we share how Juicebox uses OpenSearch Service for improved search. Challenges in recruiting search Recruitin…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instanc…

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Equinix MX1, Querétaro, Mexico data center near Mexico City. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the second AWS Direct Connect location within Mexico. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. AWS also announced the addition of 10Gbps and 100Gbps MACsec services in the existing KIO Networks data center in Querétaro, Mexico. The Direct Connect service enables y…

Amazon EC2 Image Builder now supports direct conversion of Microsoft Windows ISO files to Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), streamlining the process of using your own Windows AMIs. This also simplifies the process of leveraging your existing Windows licenses (BYOL) with Amazon WorkSpaces. The existing process for converting Windows ISO files into AMIs involves time-consuming manual steps and familiarity with multiple tools, increasing operational overhead. EC2 Image Builder now enables you to seamlessly import your Windows ISO files. This enhancement simplifies the workflow for Windows 11 ISO to AMI conversion and reduces time and complexity in creating custom Windows AMIs…

TVS Supply Chain Solutions (TVS SCS), promoted by the erstwhile TVS Group and now part of the $3 billion TVS Mobility Group, is an India-based multinational company who pioneered the development of the supply chain solutions market in India. For the last 2 decades, it has provided supply chain management services to customers in the automotive, consumer goods, defense, and utility sectors in India, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US. It has a presence in 26 countries with over 17,000 employees and provides services to 78 global Fortune 500 companies. The company went public in 2023. To meet its customers’ compliance requirements, TVS SCS sought a reliable file tra…

Organizations constantly work to process and analyze vast volumes of data to derive actionable insights. Effective data ingestion and search capabilities have become essential for use cases like log analytics, application search, and enterprise search. These use cases demand a robust pipeline that can handle high data volumes and enable efficient data exploration. Apache Spark, an open source powerhouse for large-scale data processing, is widely recognized for its speed, scalability, and ease of use. Its ability to process and transform massive datasets has made it an indispensable tool in modern data engineering. Amazon OpenSearch Service—a community-driven search and …

In addition to the currencies already supported, AWS US customers can choose to pay in Chilean Peso (CLP), Colombian Peso (COP), and Uruguayan Peso (UYU). Similarly, AWS Europe customers can pay in Egyptian Pound (EGP), Nigerian Naira (NGN), Polish Zloty (PLN), Romanian Leu (RON), Ukrainian Hryvnia (UAH). Local currencies are important in localizing the payment experience for customers. With payments in their local currencies, customers can avoid foreign exchange costs associated making foreign currency payments. Also, it removes payment friction for customers in countries where local regulations put limits on the foreign currency amount a customer can access. Log i…

Amazon MSK Connect (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect) now supports updating connector configuration of existing connectors. With this launch, you can change the configuration of your connector using a single, UpdateConnector API call. You can make changes to your connector settings, such as updating source or sink destinations, or processing configurations. Amazon MSK Connect allows you to deploy and operate Apache Kafka Connect connectors in a fully managed environment. You can modify the connector configuration parameters of your existing connector when you have changes in your source or sink settings such as source database tables or topics to deliv…

AWS Security Hub now supports Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, allowing you to receive security findings for DNS queries made from your Amazon VPCs for domains suspected as malicious or identified as low-reputation. Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is a managed firewall that enables you to block DNS queries made for malicious domains and to allow queries for trusted domains. Today, AWS Security Hub gives you a comprehensive view of your security alerts and compliance status across your AWS accounts. This integration allows you to enable three new finding types for Security Hub. You can now receive security findings for queries blocked or alerted on for domains asso…

As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nuts. This nutritious mixture symbolizes harmony, prosperity, and good fortune — with each ingredient representing the diversity and abundance of life. This traditional practice dates back to when Buddha achieved enlightenment after consuming rice porridge, making it a symbol of both material and spiritual nourishment. The festival, occurring on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, marks the…

You can now evaluate agent performance on emails in Amazon Connect, enabling managers to assess agent performance across contact channels (voice, chat, email, and tasks) in a single easy-to-use web interface, and get aggregated insights across cohorts of agents over time. With this launch, managers can evaluate agent performance by reviewing email threads and additional details of the email interaction (e.g., handle time) in a single UI. Contact centers can also use public APIs to incorporate data from third-party systems (e.g., CSAT, sales volumes, customer retention, etc.) into performance evaluations of email contacts, providing managers with comprehensive insights on …

Today, AWS End User Messaging launched self-service Sender ID registrations for 19 additional countries, helping developers correctly configure SMS messaging for their applications. The new countries include Australia, Belarus, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Zambia. Phone numbers and sender IDs act as an extension of a business's brand, and mobile carriers and governments worldwide have implemented SMS registrations as a form of "know your customer" check to protect end-users from unwanted and spam messages. By registering, a…

AWS CodeBuild has expanded its batch build capabilities to include support for reserved capacity fleets and Lambda compute. This enhancement allows you to select a mix of on-demand instances, reserved capacity fleets, or Lambda compute resources for your build batches. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Batch builds in CodeBuild enable the simultaneous execution of multiple, coordinated builds within a project. This feature is particularly beneficial for developers working on multi-platform projects or those with interdependent build processes. You c…

AWS Marketplace launched email notification and Amazon EventBridge event that informs AWS Marketplace selling partners, including ISVs and Channel Partners, when their disbursements have been paused due to invalid bank account information. With this launch, selling partners can be alerted to these events and take immediate action to update their banking details so they receive their disbursements promptly. Until now, AWS Marketplace selling partners had to check disbursement status in Insights tab in AMMP. With this release, disbursement paused events that are caused by invalid bank accounts will be sent to Amazon EventBridge and AWS Marketplace sellers can subscribe t…

AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations to Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups with scaling policies and multiple instance types. With the new recommendations, you can take actions to optimize cost and performance of these groups without requiring specialized knowledge or engineering resources to analyze them. Compute Optimizer analyzes EC2 Auto Scaling groups' scaling policies, instance configurations, and utilization metrics to understand their usage patterns and identify opportunities for cost and performance optimization. For EC2 Auto Scaling groups using multiple instance types, Compute Optimizer helps identify the most cost-efficient ins…

In our previous post Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg, we showed how to use Apache Iceberg in the context of strategy backtesting. In this post, we focus on data management implementation options such as accessing data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), using popular data formats like Parquet, or using open table formats like Iceberg. Our experiments are based on real-world historical full order book data, provided by our partner CryptoStruct, and compare the trade-offs between these choices, focusing on performance, cost, and quant developer productivity. Data management is the foundation of quantitative res…

The rise of generative AI applications has heightened the necessity to implement semantic search and natural language search. These advanced search features help find and retrieve conceptually relevant documents from enterprise content repositories to serve as prompts for generative AI models. Raw data within various source repositories in the form of text, images, audio, video, and so on are converted, with the help of embedding models, to a standard numerical representation called vectors that powers the semantic and natural language search. As organizations harness more sophisticated large language and foundational models to power their generative AI applications, supp…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Ireland) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-ba…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in New York City, supporting a wide range of workloads at the edge. This new Local Zone offers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i, R7i, M6i, and M6in instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect, and the microsecond-accurate time of Amazon Time Sync in this new Local Zone to support your workloads at the edge. Local Zones are an AWS infrastructure deployment that place compute, stor…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. C7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are a great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and video encoding. C7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (me…

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides free trials for first-time users of conversational analytics and performance evaluations. New conversational analytics for voice customers will receive a free trial with no charge for the first 100,000 voice minutes per month for the first two months. In addition, customers using Contact Lens performance evaluations for the first time will receive a 30-day free trial, that begins the day that they submit their first performance evaluation. The free trials will enable first-time customers to pilot Contact Lens conversational analytics and evaluations in their environment without incurring additional costs. With this launch, the n…

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Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Telehouse Bangkok, Thailand data center. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Bangkok location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is the second AWS Direct Connect location within Thailand. The new Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available. AWS also announced the addition of 10Gbps and 100Gbps MACsec services in the existing TCC, Bangkok Direct Connect location. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a …

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (Amazon MSK Connect) APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke Amazon MSK Connect APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. By default, all communication between your MSK Clusters and your Amazon MSK Connect connectors is private, and your data never traverses the internet. Similar to AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon MSK APIs, this launch enables clients to invoke MSK Connect APIs via a private endpoint. This allows client applications with strict security requirements to perform MSK Connect specific actions such as creating connectors fro…

AWS announces general availability of 20 additional AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook recommendations as contextual action buttons on event notifications in AWS Chatbot. This launch enables customers to run AWS Systems Manager automations from Microsoft Teams and Slack channels to address AWS Security Hub and Amazon ECS-related events. With this launch, customers can run AWS Systems Manager automations to resolve issues when they receive AWS Security Hub and Amazon ECS event notifications in chat channels. AWS Chatbot displays contextual action buttons on Security Hub and ECS event notifications and customers can click on them to run automations to resolve the fin…

Amazon DynamoDB now supports a configurable period for point-in-time-recovery (PITR). You can specify the duration for data recoverability using PITR on a per-table basis, ranging from 1 to 35 days. Point-in-time recovery (PITR) protects your DynamoDB data from accidental writes and deletes, allowing you to restore your data to any second within your recovery period. With this launch, a configurable backup recovery period can help you meet your compliance and regulatory requirements that necessitate shorter data recovery periods. Point-in-time-recovery is now configurable in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. You pay base…

Quick and reliable access to information is crucial for making smart business decisions. That’s why companies are turning to Amazon OpenSearch Service to power their search and analytics capabilities. OpenSearch Service makes it straightforward to deploy, operate, and scale search systems in the cloud, enabling use cases like log analysis, application monitoring, and website search. Efficiently managing OpenSearch Service indexes and cluster resources can lead to significant improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability – all of which directly impact a company’s bottom line. However, the industry lacks built-in and well-documented solutions to automate these…

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to stay ahead of the competition. If you’re thinking about a career in this field, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a clear certification path that can help you grow your skills, starting from the basics and building up to advanced AI/ML expertise. I intend to walk you through AWS’s AI/ML certification path—from the AWS Certified AI Practitioner to the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate certification to the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty—and share some resources that will help you in your journey. Step 1: AWS Certified AI Practitioner (…

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) provides valuable insights into user behavior across websites and apps. But what if you need to combine GA4 data with other sources or perform deeper analysis? That’s where Amazon Redshift and Amazon AppFlow come in. Amazon AppFlow bridges the gap between Google applications and Amazon Redshift, empowering organizations to unlock deeper insights and drive data-informed decisions. In this post, we show you how to establish the data ingestion pipeline between Google Analytics 4, Google Sheets, and an Amazon Redshift Serverless workgroup. Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that you can use to securely transfer data from software …

Happy New Year! We are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, offers five forward-looking tech predictions for 2025, and beyond: The workforce of tomorrow is mission-driven A new era of energy efficiency drives innovation Technology tips the scales in the discovery of truth Open data drives decentralized disaster preparedness Intention-driven consumer technology takes hold Download the Werner Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond ebook, or read Werner’s All Things Distributed blog to learn m…

This blog was authored by Karthik Rajendran, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS) and Isha Dua, Senior Solutions Architect (AWS). The software architect’s job is mostly one of trade-offs, weighing the considerations of different approaches and then choosing the one that strikes the best balance. Some architects are surprised to find that, in the AWS Cloud at least, architecting for environmental sustainability doesn’t have to mean sacrificing functionality or higher bills. In this blog post, we provide guidance on how to build and run your container images using less storage and fewer compute resources. You will find that you don’t need to remove features or strip functi…

AWS WAF’s console dashboard now includes richer visualizations that give you insights into the top sources of traffic. With this feature, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations can view a new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard. Customers previously used the all traffic dashboard, a default dashboard that populates visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. As customers strive to continue gaining additional visibility into their traffic, they have requested richer visualizations based on logs in addition to visualizations based on CloudWatch metrics. Starting today, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations will have access to this new t…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression). To learn …

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for c…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). To learn more abou…

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service. To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visi…

This blog presents how the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02) exam tests your ability to design, develop, and implement fault-tolerant and reliable architecture. To become an AWS solution architect, you must understand the AWS reliability design principles, advanced concepts about designing distributed systems, and other best practices for creating resilient fault-tolerant systems... View the full article

AWS Application Discovery Service (ADS) customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack domains, while discovering on-premises server inventory as part of a cloud migration. The existing ADS endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain for backwards compatibility. The continued growth of the Internet, particularly in the areas of mobile applications, connected devices, and IoT, has spurred an industry-wide move to IPv6. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. The new dual-stack domains is available either fr…

AWS provides you with options when choosing a service that can spur creativity and productivity, but without the proper procedures in place, navigating the billing complexities can be daunting. In this blog post, we’ll explore essential AWS billing practices every AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner should be aware of to optimize costs and avoid surprises. Learn about AWS pricing models and how the estimation of costs for various AWS services and different pricing structures matters in the long run for cost optimization... View the full article

AWS Certifications validate your technical expertise and show your commitment to professional growth in cloud computing. We’re both experienced AWS professionals and have witnessed firsthand how cloud technologies can accelerate mission-critical initiatives and solve complex challenges in regulated industries. AWS Certifications have been an important part of our respective career progression and we’re passionate about sharing our certification experiences to help others. Whether you’re starting in a traditional IT role or already working with cloud technologies, we hope that some of the tips we offer will be helpful as you prepare for, and navigate your own AWS learning …